I use MediaFire, Dropbox, Google Drive and my own server for backup. Unfortunately for Verizon subscribers servers are impossible since port 80 is blocked.

I have maybe 400mb of music on a local drive, and like 5gb on backup. As well as Tons and tons of video on backup.

Do you prefer hard drives or cloud? Are you saving money paying for a bunch of hard drives or cloud space? Let me know.

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Comment by Cameron Ryan on September 18, 2012 at 6:51pm: You'll probably end up saving more money making a server on an external drive. The issues:

(1) If you have Verizon, your FTP, mail, and web server ports are blocked

(2) Download speeds

(3) If you don't have a business plan with your ISP, you'll go through the struggle of Dynamic DNS and must pay if you do not want something.something.com on top of buying the hard drive.

(4) Computer Running 24/7 if you want all access everywhere if your at work, vacation, etc.

Comment by Maxime J on September 15, 2012 at 8:39pm: Hard drives. I recently bought a NAS just for that. I have a hard time trusting my own devices for security, so I'm really not anywhere close to sending willingly my stuff somewhere I have no say over access control. True that the robustness of the remote systems might be much better, but I'll put some extra effort into this. The NAS being one. And I'll probably set an off-location (very) encrypted copy somewhere. I keep the "cloud" for stuff that has no big importance.

Also, you never know when you'll lose your cloud account (or data) for X stupid reason they can find in their brilliantly crafted EULA. Plus, how are their old equipment disposed of? And are they handing files to governments on demand? ... I think we have to somewhat resist the cloud hype and continue to develop decentralized solutions for data persistence.

Comment by Cameron Ryan on September 15, 2012 at 9:15am: @Seth if were talking about 500GB, you might as well buy an external hard drive and make an FTP server!

Comment by Newptone on September 15, 2012 at 3:50am: I think we should divide files into two types: must be safe or must be security.:

For example, I will never backup my private photos on cloud,I think that's not security, I prefer to lose them rather than be leak.I will backup them on local hard drives.

Besides that, I really like to backup my files such as code, docs on the cloud.They are easy to access and safety.

Comment by Seth David on September 8, 2012 at 12:12am: I have a lot in Drop Box and I also use something called ShareFile. I use Google Drive only for docs I've created there and I have also been playing around a bit with SkyDrive. Where do you backup your video? That is the one thing I have not figured out how I can get into The Cloud without spending a fortune for all of the space I'd need. I am talking approx 500GB of video files!!

Comment by DTM on September 6, 2012 at 8:18pm: Hard drives. I'll never trust some server out there with my stuff. j/s

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